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Death Row Chaplain Dale Recinella speaking at University of Portland

Submitted by OADPEditor on Sun, 02/28/2016 - 1:02am

Chaplain Dale Recinella speaking at the University of Portland, http://www.up.edu/calendar/showEvent.aspx?id=6050&inst=1l Free and open to the public. U of Portland campus 5000 N Willamette Blvd, PDX 97203. Enter campus left off N. Willamette onto N. Portsmouth Ave. Turn right after the baseball field, parking will be on your right.

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Capital punishment is legal in the U.S. state of Oregon. The first execution under the territorial government was in 1851. Capital punishment was made explicitly legal by statute in 1864, and executions have been carried out exclusively at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem since 1904. The death penalty was outlawed between 1914 and 1920, again between 1964 and 1978, and then again between a 1981 Oregon Supreme Court ruling and a 1984 ballot measure. Since 1904, about 60 individuals have been executed in Oregon. Aggravated murder is the only crime subject to the penalty of death under Oregon law.